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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 2366707" data-attributes="member: 5890">Basically:Rifts, and the palladium system in general, have some absolutely awesome ideas. Just fantastic.However that's really all they have - awesome ideas that tend to seem like they were just scrawled out in a train-of-thought and crammed into a book. Add some tangentially-related piccies and you're good. There's no hint of a system. There's no hint of anything unified or written for easy or enjoyable play. In short - if you can run rifts in an enjoyable way, then you could run the same game in any setting with any ruleset, and nothing more than the descriptions to guide you.That's basically palladium games in a nutshell.So - for me I don't think that picking up rifts ultimate edition would be worthwhile. In fact, don't bother getting the basic rule book at all. Pick up a couple of setting books and stick with them. Run them in some other system that will (guaranteed) run just as well, and most likely be quicker and simpler.</blockquote>